"Gordon Airport" <uce at ftc.gov> wrote in message news:A6udnSqYRcfk-C2gXTWcqA at comcast.com... > There's got to be something simple I'm missing... > You obviously can't do > a < b ? a : b > and this > a if a < b else b > is a syntax error. I started playing with lambda functions > but I didn't have any luck there either. min(a,b)